Print issue 2441 (09 May 2020)
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News
- Pick of the week: Recognise the face? Probably not, but striking selfie sets major record
- French auctions prepare to return as Drouot aims to reopen on May 25
- Sotheby’s and Christie’s hail online sale results but turnover will depend on future of flagship auctions
- Bonhams unveils its new auctions schedule
- Heritage announces ‘significant expansion’ all on one site
News Digest
- Bid Barometer: issue 2441
- Is this one’s best side? Rare portrait photographs of the Queen sold in Peterborough auction
- Precious metals prices: issue 2441
- News In Brief – including a photographica collection being stolen in north London
Feature
- CERAMICS: Welsh wonderland of ceramics manufacturers
- Von Brühl’s tailor rides his goat and fabled groups add a light touch
- Remarkable Rice collection of porcelain dispersed at Gorringe’s
- Pair of platform souls provides surprise top price at Sotheby's
- Maltese connection lifts maiolica storage jar
- Caughley namechecks Mr Berridge
- Staffordshire and Wedgwood pieces offered in Belgium
- Meissen Whiplash dinner service catches the eye at Freeman’s
- Collection of English drinking glasses emerge in Virginia
- 'Durham Ox' plate among super Staffordshire pottery selection in Michigan
Auction Reports
- A collection to fire the imagination
- Purdey & Sons rifle made for a royal tour of India sells at Gavin Gardiner
- Prince Charles investiture chairs emerge at Cardiff auction
- Georgian card table at Chorley's stands out from the pack
- Dr No rubs shoulders with caddies and dishes
- Walnut longcase clock signed for Golden Age maker sparks bidding in Yorkshire
- Pow! Batman poster and toy are hits
- ART MARKET: Auction house reports boost for less familiar names as bidders scan catalogues in detail
- Bellany results remain buoyant
- Affordable art: Three works sold for under £1500 including a Frank O Salisbury portrait
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Provenance provides Peel appeal while first English editions of Dostoevsky draw interest
- Top deck among the cards
- British and Irish book auctions (all online only): May 5-16, 2020
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- Print fair joins the online revolution to display works during lockdown
- Aussie art dealer looks back on UK influence
- Soviet Dollar features among item new AntikBar website
- Dealers Online: ATG's selection of 30 objects available from dealers' websites – issue 2441
Letters & Backpage
- Kind fairies fly in to bring a portrait puzzle
- Book trade good news… and a cross-dressing mystery to solve
- Obituary: dealer Michael Fenn
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Cover - Issue 2441